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G ; SPring 7-7000 tr: :,": 1 ' ;'"1 / FIFTH AVENUE A T EIGHTH STREET ,.. broadcasts from the U.S.A. are now the last household objects of value that the French wi}] sell. :\Jany of the French are selling every- thing else, however. Paris is full of what is called easy l11oney, as is always the case in a country where people don't know what their cash is going to be worth next Inonth. Because the French always adored Inoney as something to save, they now have money to spend. That is to say, the l110dest rentiers and 1niddle class are frugally living on savings from the family sock; they aren't sure what will happen to the111 when they come to the toe. The grande hour geoisie is either selling its possessions or in vesting what is left of its savings in more possessions. t\11 in all, the l110ney 1narket in Paris is lively; bank clerks are about the only class of clerical work- ers who have not lost their jobs. 1--\n incredible alnoun t of trading is going on in what are known as tangible values -ca111eras, knick-knacks, jewels, 1111- pressionist paintings (which the Ger- Inans also buy and the French there- fore think will be a good international c01111110dity in the future), and furni- ture, new or old. One big Paris fur- niture-shop owner says he has never be- fore sold so Inany sofas and chairs, or fewer carpets. Moths eat carpets and Inight riddle thelTI before peace COI11es around again. A rich Paris é111igré in New York heard that an aunt had sold his Louis x\r household furnishings for two and a half 111illion francs; since he had bought them for half that, he was enchanted until he realized that he couldn't get hold of the money and that there was no telling what idiocy his aunt would invest it in-probably modern furniture. Because of the grave food shortage in Paris, even a Inillionaire cannot buy what he may fancy to eat, though, de- spite food rationing, he can buy a fat lot Inore of what he doesn't fancy, like yel- low turnips, than the poor man with the sa111e hundred francs, since the poor , d . Inan s restaurants an grocenes are strictly, and legally, run. It is difficult to spend big l11oney. There are no fine clothes or Slnart cars to purchase. There is literal1y nothing new to buy, so I11an buys what 111an Inade yesterday and the day before-houses, hijoux, or, if lucky, a horse and an old spider rig fro111 SOl11e- body's château stable, though food for the horse to pull it will be a proble111. Since jewels and art, being the l110st c0111pact and therefore the Inost Inobile valuta, are the l110St sought-after by buy- ers in Paris, so also are they the 1110St * ,. ... sought-out by the frontier CUSt0111S of- ficers, who are charged with seeing that valuables don't leave the land. There is a fe111ale custo1ns inspector operating on the P.-L.-M. railway who X-rays lady passengers she suspects of having swal- lowed or secreted in or on their persons unset dia1110nds or other gems. How- ever, when one A111erican expatriate who was fond of her four fine, sl11all Cézannes packed to C0111e h0111C to A111erica, she unfra111ed the pictures, put the111 in a case with her private papers, and, when a CUSt0111S officer asked her about their value, said, HGreat sen ti- In ental value. They are SOl11e little things I painted 111yself." "They look like it, IVladalne, " '<L he said jocosely as he O.K.'d the111. The last tilne one of the largest Rubens canvases fro111 a Brussels 1nu- SeUlTI was heard of was in the refugee trek of a year ago. Draped over a broo111 handle, paint side carefully turned down, it was serving sOlnewhere in F ranee as a roadside tent in the rain for the 111inor 111useUln official who, pre- cisely because he Tas 1ninor, had been loaded with the unwieldy can vas at the last 111inute, when he and his wife were stowing their household goods on the roof of their ,;econd-hand car. The only possible consolation for the destruction by bOI11bs or re1110val by the Gern1ans of so many yaluable, beautiful things is that the French are hoarding with extra care '--' what" is left. D EFEAT, having elÎ111inated 1110st nor111al wavs of earning a living in F'rance, has created four abnoll11a] new ways of turning a penny, all danger- ous. The two C0111lnoner Inethods are trafficking, at the risk of iInprisonl11ent, on the two varieties of Black Bourse, the illegal 111arkets for food and foreign ex- change. Both of these bourses exist in "- both zones of France. The food rack- et is the Inore popular . It consists of secretly selling butter at, say, sixty tu seventy-five francs a pound when the regulation price for butter is twenty- three to twenty-five francs, if you can find the butter. The fact that often you can't is what Inakes this. Black Bourse flourish. The black n10ney 111arket deals principally in A111erican paper currency; $50 and $100 denolninations are pre- ferred because they are big enough to be worth hiding for an e111ergency but not too big to cash easily. The Black Bourse dollar sells for around two hundred to two hundred and fifty francs in lVlar- seilles, though the franc is officially quot- ed at forty-three to the dollar. The